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ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
FREEMASON
AN
ADDRESS
Delivered
before
Harmony
Lodge
No.
17,
F.A.A.M.
Washington,
D.
C,
January
28,
1914
By
DR.
L.
D.
CARMAN,
P.
M.
With
an
Appendix
Containing
the Actions
taken
by
the
Masonic
Grand
Lodges
of the United
States
on Lincoln's
Death
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ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
FREEMASON
AN
ADDRESS
Delivered
before
Harmony
Lodge
No.
17,
F.A.A.M.
Washington,
D.
C,
January
28,
1914
By
DR.
L.
D.
CARMAN,
P.
M.
With
an
Appendix
Containing
the Actions
taken
by
the
Masonic Grand
Lodges
of the United
States
on
Lincoln's
Death
PRINTED FOR
PRIVATE
DISTRIBUTION
1914
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ABRAHAM
LINCOLN,
FREEMASON.
Worshipful
Master and Brethren:
The
subject
of
my
remarks this
evening
will
be Abraham
Lincoln,
Freemason. It
may
be
regarded
as
somewhat
pre-
sumptuous
to
give
this address this
title,
when
Lincoln
is not
considered
as
one of the Masonic
Presidents
of the
United
States,
and
while ''Abraham
Lincoln
and
Freemasonry might
be
deemed
by
some
as
a
preferable
title,
Abraham
Lincoln,
Free-
mason,
is
nevertheless
the
subject.
It once
was
facetiously
attempted
to
prove
that
Lincoln
was a
Mormon because
in
one of
his
early speeches
he made
a
number
of references to
throat
cutting,
the
penalty
of the
first
Mormon
oath,
and
because
in
another address
shortly
before
his first
in-
auguration
he
stated
that
sooner than surrender a
certain
prin-
ciple
he would have
his
body
burned
to
ashes and those
ashes
scattered
to
the
winds
of
heaven,
the peculiar
language
in
the
third Mormon oath.
While
it has
been said
that
anything
can be
proved
in
Masonry,
it
is not
attempted
to
prove
that
Lincoln
was a
member
of
the
secret
society
called Mormons or of the
secret
society
called
Freemasons,
but
a
number
of
interesting
facts
concerning
Lin-
coln
and
his connection
with
our Order
are
presented
for con-
sideration.
One
of
Lincoln's
most intimate
friends
in
early
life
was
Bowl-
ing
Green,
an
earnest
Mason,
a
Past
Master and
a
member
of
the
old Grand
Lodge
of
Illinois,
the
records
of
that
Lodge
show-
ing
him
to
have attended the
communications of 1836
and
1827.
While
Lincoln
was
never
formally
received
into
the
Masonic
Order,
he first
saw
Masonic
light
in
connection
with
his
friend-
ship
and
close
association with
Bowling
Green.
Honor
to
him
who
may safely
be
called the
Masonic
Preceptor
of
Abraham
Lincoln.
It
was
not an unusual
practice
in
the
early
days
of
Masonry
in
this
country
in
sparsely
settled
localities,
remote
from
an
active
Lodge,
for several
members of
the
fraternity
to
get
to-
gether,
form an
emergent
or
occasional
Lodge
and
make
Masons,
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with
no
record being
made
of
the
proceedings.
If
Lincohi
was
not thus made
a
Mason,
he in some
manner
obtained
consider-
able Masonic
knowledge
and
probably
from
Bowling
Green
prior
to
1837
when
Lincoln
removed
from
Menard
County,
111.,
to
Springfield.
When
in
1842
Bowling
Green died and was
buried with
Ma-
sonic honors
it
is
somewhat
significant
that
Lincoln
was
selected
by
the
fraternity
to make the
address
at the
funeral,
an address
he
was unable to
finish,
breaking
down
with
emotion
during
the
delivery.
If
Lincoln
was
not a
Mason
irregularly
made,
he
must have
been in
sympathy
with the
known
objects
of
the
Order to have
been invited
to
speak
at
a Masonic funeral.
Clinton
Lodge,
No.
19,
at
Petersburg,
111.,
was
granted
its
dispensation
by
the
Grand
Lodge
in
October, 18-1:2,
and
the
funeral
referred to was
evidently
under the
auspices
of
the
Masons
who
formed this
Lodge.
As
a
matter
of
historical interest
the
list
of
members
of Clin-
ton
Lodge
in
1843
is
given,
as
all the
members
were
acquaint-
ances
if
not
friends
of
the future
President. It will be noted
that
John
McNeal,
the
betrothed
of
Ann
Rutledge,
Lincoln's
first
love,
was
Junior
Warden.
List
of
Members
of
Clinton
Lodge,
No.
19,
Petersburg,
111.,
1843:
John
Bennett,
W.
M.,
Martin
S.
Morris,
S.
W.,
John
McNeal,
J.
W.,
Nathan
Dresser,
Secretary,
Jacob
West,
Treas-
urer,
David
McMurphy,
S.
D.,
Wm.
B.
Kirk,
J.
D.,
Aaron
B.
White,
Tyler,
M. M.
John
B.
Broadwell,
Chas.
G.
Brooks,
Lewis
B.
Wynne,
Chas.
B.
Waldo,
Thos.
L.
Harris,
Benj.
Newman,
F.
C,
Ambrose
E.
Rankin,
E.
A.,
Jas.
Short.
Prior
to
1840
there was
a
Lodge
at
Springfield,
111.,
which
at
the
organization
of the
existing
Grand
Lodge
of
Illinois in
that
year,
became
Springfield
Lodge,
No.
4.
List
of
Members
of
Springfield
Lodge,
1840: M.
Helm,
W.
M.,
Alex.
Lindsay,
S.
W.,
Jas.
Adams,
J.
W.,
Love S.
Cornwall,
Secretary,
M.
Boyle,
Treasurer,
M.
J.
Kelly,
S.
D.,
J.
S.
Kil-
laly,
J.
D.,
James
Maxey, Tyler,
M. M.
Jas.
R.
Gray,
Philo
Deers,
B.
C.
Webster,
W.
Cudmore,
Samuel
L.
Hesser,
Joseph
Firey,
Isaac
R.
Brancher,
Wm.
Harvey,
Francis
Springer,
S.
A.
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Douglas,
Jas.
Gevisler,
Jr.,
Alex.
Shields,
Jas.
F.
Reed,
J.
Wickershain,
John
Uhler,
Jas. Briggs, John
S.
Roberts,
L.
B.
Adams,
F.
A.
McNeill,
Jas.
Shepherd,
Henry
Carrigan.
James
Shields,
later
General
and
U.
S.
Senator,
was
J.
W.
of
this
Lodge
in 1841
and
was afterward
the first Master of Na-
tional
Lodge
in
this
city.
As
Harmony
Lodge
is
an
offspring
of
National
Lodge
we
have
an
indirect
connection with the first
Lodge
in
Springfield,
Illinois,
whose
members were
fellow
towns-
men
of
Lincoln
if
nothing
more.
Stephen
A.
Douglas
does not
appear
in
list
of
members
of
Springfield
Lodge
after
1843.
In
his
younger
days,
Feb.
22,
1842,
Lincoln
delivered
a
long
lecture on
Temperance,
one
of
the
Masonic
virtues.
On another
anniversary
of the
birth of
that
distinguished
man
and
Mason,
George
Washington,
Lincoln
delivered
a
speech
on
Inventions,
in
the
course
of
which
he
alluded to the
first
inven-
tion,
the
fig
leaf
apron,
showing
his
acquaintance
with
that ven-
erable
Masonic claim
that Adam
was the
first
Mason
as
he
wore
the
first
apron.
Lincoln
also
had some
knowledge
of
operative
masonry,
the
hammer,
square
and
compass
were familiar'
to his
hands,
and
in
his
early occupation
as
surveyor
he
laid
out
squares
and
calcu-
lated
horizontals
and
perpendiculars.
For
not
by
dainty
hands
in
kid the
shackles
fell
to
rust,
But
warty,
horny
were
the
palms
that
made
the
nation
just.
LINCOLN'S
MASONIC
WORDS.
References
are
to Federal
Edition
of
Lincoln's
Works.
They
were
pillars
of
the
temple
of
Liberty,
and
now
that
they
have crumbled
away
the
temple
must fall unless
we,
their
descendants'
supply
their
places
with other
pillars,
hewn
from
the
solid
quarry
of
sober reason. 1-160.
In
a
speech
about the
Bank,
made in
1837,
occur the
words,
Oath
of
secrecy,
divulged
a
secret,
does
not
every
merchant
have his secret mark?
Sound
the
alarm.
1-139-140.
Another sentence :
Such
belong
not to the
family
of
the
lion
or
the tribe
of
the
eagle.
1-157.
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In
the
Lost
Township
letter
with
the
composition
of
which
he
probably
had
something
to
do,
occurs
the
following:
I
defy
Daniel
Webster,
I
defy King
Solomon.
1-285.
As
this letter
was
making
sport
of
James
Shields,
an
officer
of
Springfield
Lodge,
this
sentence
may
have
had
more
intended
significance
than
would
ordinarily
appear.
Here
are
some
more
of
his
Masonic
words
:
I
wish
to
stand
erect
before
the
country.
3-169.
Will
cling
to
it with
a
desperate
grip.
3-169.
The
sharp
point
against
him.
3-169.
If
you
have
ever
studied
Geometry
you
remember
that
by
a
course
of
reasoning
Euclid
proves
that all the
angles
in a tri-
angle
are
equal
to two
right angles.
-4-69.
The
cements
which
bind
together
the
different
parts
of
the
Union.
4-258.
The
circle
from which
all their
propositions
radiate.
4-263.
Charter
of
freedom.
5-155.
Marks
another
step.
5-161.
Our
children
and
our
children's
children.
6-151.
The
word
spot
has a
peculiar
place
in
Masonry
and this
word
affords
the
basis
for
the famous
so-called
Spot
resolutions
introduced
by
Lincoln
in
Congress
during
the
Mexican
War,
Dec.
22,
1847.
In
his
speech
at
Philadelphia
before
inauguration
he
said that
he
Would
rather
be
assassinated
on the
spot
than
surrender,
and the
words
Fatal
blow
though copied,
were
frequently
used
in
the
joint
debate with
Douglas
at
Freeport, August
22,
1858.
Several
times
he
used
the words
Darkness
to
light,
and
in
his
telegram
to
General
Sherman
on
his march
to the
sea,
he said
:
It
brings
those who
sat
in
darkness to
see a
great light.
7-274.
In
a
letter to
Speed
he
said,
All
will be
Harmony,
a
senti-
ment
peculiar
to this
Lodge
at
least.
2-3.
In
speaking
of
slavery
and
not
of
Masonry
he once
referred
to
blue lodges
as
they
call
them
everywhere
doing
their
secret
and
deadly
work.
2-271.
We
are all
familiar
with
that now
English
classic
the address
at
Gettysburg,
Masonic
in
every
line.
Note
the
emphasis
by
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repetition
placed
upon
tlie
word
dedicate.
Mark
the
conclu-
sion
Government
of the
people,
by
the
people,
for the
people
shall not
perish
from the
earth.
The
man who wrote
the
Gettysburg
address
not a
Mason?
Listen
to these
words :
I,et
us
have
faith that
right
makes
might,
and
in
that
faith,
let
us,
to
the
end,
dare
to
do our
duty,
as
we understand
it.
And
having
thus
chosen our
course,
without
guile
and with
pure
purpose,
let
us
renew
our
trust
in
God,
and
go
forward
without
fear and with
manly
hearts.
With
malice
toward
none,
with
charity
for
all,
with firmness
in the
right
as God
gives
us
to
see the
right,
let
us
strive
on
to
finish the work we
are
in.
The
man
who
spoke
these
words not a Mason?
With
the
tinge
of
a
mystic,
the
inspiration
of a
prophet,
the
man
who
regarded
all
men
as
his
brethren,
that
man not
a
Mason ?
The
man
who
spoke
like
a
Mason,
lived
like
a
Mason
and
died
like
a
Mason,
that
man
not a
Mason?
No
No No
and a
thousand times
No
The
true
Masonic
spirit
breathes
throughout
the life
of this
remarkable man.
In 1866
the
Government
published
a volume
containing
the
tributes
of
foreign
nations to
Abraham
Lincoln.
In
this
single
volume
appear
the resolutions and tributes
of
forty-four
foreign
Masonic
grand
lodges
and
subordinate bodies.
Was
Lincoln
a
Mason
to
them?
Of
these
forty-four
lodges
how
many
called
Lincoln
brother?
Only
twenty.
Here
is
doc-
umentary
evidence
of
a
kind.
Twenty
contemporaneous
docu-
ments
concerning
our illustrious
brother,
Abraham
Lincoln.
As
the volume
referred to is not a rare
work,
only
the
list of
lodges
is
here
given
with
such
portion
of
the
resolutions
as
re-
ferred to
Lincoln
as
a
Freemason.
FOREIGN
MASONIC
LODGES
ON
DEATH OF
LINCOLN.
Belgium.
Septentrion
Masonic
Lodge
of
Ghent.
Lincoln
personified
the cause of
liberty
and human
fraternity.
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France.
Lodge
of
La
Franche
Union,
at
Choisy-Le-Roy.
De-
partment
of
Seine.
We
mourn
the
loss of
a
brother
whose
memory
will
ever
be
dear
to
patriots
and
Free Masons.
He
honored
Masonry.
From
this
date the
name
of
Abraham
Lincoln
is
inscribed on
the
list of
our
members,
and
at
each
session
for three
months,
a
brother
will
rise
at
the
call
of
his name
and answer:
'Abraham
Lincoln
died
like a
Mason
to elevate
humanity outraged
by
slav-
ery.'
At
the
expiration
of
three
months
we
will
celebrate
a
Masonic
funeral
to his
memory.
Perfect
Union
Masonic
Lodge,
Orient
of Confoleus.
Charente.
New
Friendship
Lodge
of
Grasse.
Sympathy
for the
glorious
death
of
one
who,
after
having
used
the
hammer,
square
and
compass,
those
living implements
of
our
immortal
societ}%
etc.
United
Benefactors
of
Gentilly.
To
Grand Lodge
of
N. Y.
The
very
illustrious
brother,
Abraham
Lincoln,
has
given
his
life
for
the
love
of
his
country,
etc.,
thus
setting
the most
noble
example
a
Masonic
brother
can
give
to his
brethren. Free Ma-
sonry
has
suffered
an
irreparable
loss.
Orion
Lodge
of
St.
John,
Gaillac
Orient.
Lodge
of
Toleration
and
Progress,
Lure.
Sympathy
for the
memory
of
Brother
Lincoln.
L'Escole
de
la
Morale
Lodge
of
Libourne.
Lincoln,
our
illustrious
brother.
Lodge
will
mourn for
three
months.
Lodge
of
Les
Arts
Reunis,
Orient
of
Macon.
The
glorious
martyr
of
equality
and
fraternity.
Friends
of
Truth
Lodge,
Metz.
Lodge
of
St.
John
of
Jerusalem,
Nancy.
The
great
Masonic
association
that
gloried
in
calling
Mr.
Lin-
coln
one
of
its children.
Clement
Friendship
Lodge,
Paris.
We
Masons
mourn
him
not
only
as
a
brother,
but as
a
friend
of
the whole
human
race.
Lincoln's
first
thought
was
the
Ma-
son's motto:
fraternity.
Lodge
of
Triumphant
Friends,
Paris.
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Chapter
of
Mars
and
the
Arts,
Paris.
A
stronger
bond,
a
more intimate
union than the
common
tie
united
us
particularly
to
his
great
heart.
Abraham
Lincoln
was
our brother.
Sovereign
Chapter
of the
Friends of
the
Country, Valley
of Paris.
Glory
to
our
brother,
Lincoln,
who
practiced
the virtues
in-
culcated
by
our
order,
and
who
Masonry
is
proud
to
number
among
the
number of her
children.
L'Avenir
Lodge,
Paris.
Regret
for
the death of Brother Abraham
Lincoln.
Scotch
Masonic
Lodge
La
Prevoyance,
Paris.
St.
John's
Lodge
No.
14-7,
Heroes of
Humanity.
All
Free
Masonry
mourns
the
death
of
x\braham
Lincoln
and
this
lodge
also
regrets
the
loss of
a
man
who
was
an honor to
our
order,
etc.
Ancient
Accepted
vScotch
Rite,
Paris.
Lincoln,
whom
we had the honor to count
among
our
brothers.
Lodge
of
Henry
the
Fourth,
Paris.
Perseverance
Lodge,
Paris.
Has
any living
man
practiced
so well the
humane
principles
inculcated
by
Free
Masonry?
And
who is
more
deserving
of
the
regrets
of their
brethren
?
Lodge
ordered a
triple
mourning
salute
in
memory
of
Brother
Lincoln.
Lodge
of Admirers
of
the
Universe,
Paris.
The
memory
of
Brother
Abraham
Lincoln.
Scotch
Hive
Lodge,
Paris.
Free
Masonry
is moved with
just indignation
at
the
atrocious
crime that
has
deprived
it
of
one
of its
most
illustrious
represen-
tatives.
Condolence
for
the loss
of
the
zealous
Mason
who
has
proclaimed
the
great
Masonic
principles
of
liberty,
equality
and
fraternity. Memory
of
the
very
illustrious
brother,
Abra-
ham
Lincoln.
Lodge
of
St.
John
of
Jerusalem,
Paris,
to
Grand
Lodge
of
New
York :
The
glorious
death of one who had
handled
the
hammer,
square
and
compass.
Harmony Lodge
of
Paris.
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Lodge
Saint
Pierre
des
Acacias,
Paris.
Brother
Abraham
Lincohi,
member of
the
Grand
Lodge
of
New York.
Death
of
their
brother,
Abraham
Lincoln.
Lodge
of
the
Fraternity
of
the
People,
Paris.
The horrible
outrage
to
which Brother
Lincoln
has
fallen
a
victim.
Scotch
Lodge,
No.
146,
the
Right
Line.
The
crime,
etc.,
deprives
Masonry
of a
brother.
Rite
of
Mizraim.
Supreme
Grand Council.
Loge
Renaissance.
All
the virtues
possessed
by
Lincoln
are
Masonic
virtues,
sym-
bolized
in our
degrees
of
initiation.
When
an
apprentice,
he
purged
his
mind
of
all
the
subversive
passions,
which was
an
indispensable
preparation
for the
good
conduct
of
life.
As
a
companion
he
had
learned
to
live
orderly
by
labor,
and
a
scrupulous
observance
of
right
and
justice,
a course
which
was
marked
out
by
rule,
square
and
compasses.
Finally,
like
Hiram,
he
succumbed
to
the blows of an
out-
rageous
pride
for
having
remained
inflexible
in
the
discharge
of
his
duty.
Lodge
of
St.
Augustus
the
Beneficent,
to Grand
Lodge
of
New
York:
First,
the
son
of
a
laboring
man,
he
was
an
apprentice,
then
he
became
a
journeyman,
and
last,
a
master, thus
realizing
our
Masonic
symbols.
Cradle
of
Henry
the
Fourth
Lodge,
Pau.
Friends of
Perfect Union
Lodge, Perpignan.
An
illustrious
Mason,
the
very
dear
brother,
Abraham
Lin-
coln.
Our
very
illustrious
brother,
Abraham
Lincoln.
Royal
Scotch
Lodge
the
Elect
of St.
Stephen.
Lodge
of
Good
Faith,
St.
Germain
en
Laye.
The Gazette
de
France,
May
5,
1865,
spoke
of
Abraham
Lin-
coln
as
of the Grand
Lodge
of
New
York.
P.
124.
Grand
Lodge
of
Freemasons
of Ireland.
Grand
Lodge
of Freemasons
of
Scotland.
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England.
Lodge
of
Gymnosophists,
London.
Abraham
Lincoln,
member
of
the Grand
Lodge
of
New
York.
Italy.
Social
Progress Lodge,
Florence.
Lodge
Anziani
Virtuosi,
Leghorn.
Lodge
le
Lume
e
la
Verita,
Messina.
Italian Una
Lodge,
Parma.
Grand
Orient
of
Masonry
in
Italy,
Turin.
Italian Masonic
Lodge,
Carthage
and
Utica,
Tunis.
Germania
of
the
Golden
Horn
Masonic
Lodge,
Constantinople.
Plave lost a brother
in
the
person
of
the illustrious deceased
and
have seen but few like
him
since
the foundation
of
the order.
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It
will
be noted
that
there
are
several
references
in
these
reso-
lutions
to
Abraham
Lincoln,
member
of
the
Grand Lodge
of
New
York.
It
is
possible
that
this error
arose
from
the
fact
that this
Grand
Lodge
participated
in
the
funeral
ceremonies
in
New
York
City,
as
the Grand
Lodge
and
other
Masonic
bodies
in
the
several
States
through
which
Lincoln's
body
was
carried
on its
way
from
Washington
to
Springfield
took
part
in
the
cere-
monies
in
their
States.
The Grand
Lodge
of
New
York,
however,
was
unaware
that
Lincoln
was
a
member
of that
Lodge
or
any
other,
as
the
D.
G.
M. of
that
jurisdiction
on
April
19, 1865,
the
day
of
mourning,
addressed
a letter
to
Bro. B.
B. French
of
Washington,
which
was
answered
as follows
:
From
Masonic
Monthly,
May,
1805,
p.
351.
Office
of the G.
M. of
Knights
Templar
of the
U.
S.
A.
City
of
Washington,
April
31,
1865.
R.
W.
Rob't.
D.
Holmes,
D. G.
Master,
G.
L.
of
N.
Y.
My
Dear
Sir
and
R.
W.
Brother:
Yours
of
the
19th
is
just
received.
President
Lincoln
was
not
a
Freemason.
He once
told
me in the
presence
of
M.
W.
Bro.
J.
W.
Simons,
that
he had at
one
time
made
up
his
mind to
apply
for admission
to our
Fraternity
but
that
he feared
he
was
too
lazy
to
attend
to
his
duty
as a
Mason,
as
he should
like to
do,
and that
he
had not
carried
out
his
intentions.
I
told
him
that
it
was
not too
late
now.
Well,
said
he,
as
likely
as
not
I
shall
apply
to
you
some
day
to let
me
in.
He
was
the
most
pure
hearted,
honest,
upright
man
I
ever
knew,
and
ought
to
have
been a
Mason.
Had
he
been
my
own
father
I
could not
have
lamented
his
death
more
sincerely
than
I
do.
Very
truly
and
Fraternally
yours,
B. B.
French.
An
examination
of
the
transactions
of
all the Grand
Lodges
of the
United
States
in
existence
in
1865,
shows
some reference
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APPENDIX.
CONNECTICUT.
From address
of
David
E.
Bostwick,
G.
M.,
May
10,
1865.
While
our
hearts
were
swelling
with
gratitude
to
God
that
the
dark clouds
seemed
lifting
with
signs
of
a
coming
peace,
we
are
again
plunged
into
the
depths
of
sorrow
at the
loss of
our
beloved chief
magistrate,
upon
whom
all seemed
to
lean with
confidence in
this
great
emergency,
struck
down
by
the
hands
of
a
cowardly
assassin.
DISTRICT
OF
COLUMBIA,
MAY
2,
1865.
From
address
of
George
C.
Whiting,
G. M.
On
the
evening
of the
llth
of
April
—
a
day
which had been
previously
observed
by
the
Christian
world as
the
anniversary
of
the cruel murder
of
the Prince
of
Peace
—
our
honored
and
beloved
President,
whilst
enjoying
a brief
relaxation
from the
responsibilities
and
cares
of
his
high
official
station,
was
stricken
down
by
the
hand
of
a
wretched
and
misguided
man.
His
crime
no
mortal
thought
can
measure,
and
none but
Him
who
hath
said
vengeance
is
mine,
I
will
repay,
can
adequately
punish.
He
stands
before
the
bar of
the
Judge
Eternal,
and our
just
though puny
anger
is
hushed
in
the
awful
wrath
of
offended
Deity.
As
members
of a
loyal
and
order-loving
association,
peculiarly
bound
to be
peaceable
subjects
to the
civil
powers,
and
never
to be concerned in
plots
or
conspiracies
against
the
peace
and
welfare
of the
nation,
nor
to
behave
undutifully
to
magistrates,
are
called
to
share
in the
deep
and
universal
sorrow,
it
is
meet
that
we
should
recognize
the amiable
and
virtuous
conduct,
and
the inflexible
fidelity
to
his
trust,
which
so
marked him
as
the
fit
successor
to
our illustrious brother
—
the
great
and
good
Wash-
ington
—
and
in
some
appropriate
form
give
expression
to
our
sense
of
the loss our
country
has
sustained—
for,
in
the
languao-e
of
the
great
poet,
he
Hath
borne
his
faculties
so
meek,
hath
been
So
clear
in
his
great
office,
that
his
virtues
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Will
plead
like
angels,
trtimpet-tong'd,
against
The
deep
damnation
of
his
taking
off;
And
pity,
like
a
naked,
new-born
babe,
Striding
the
blast,
or
heaven's
cherubim,
hors'd
Upon
the
sightless
couriers
of
the
air,
Shall
blow
the horrid
deed
in
every eye
That
tears shall
drown the
wind.
That
portion
of
the address
of
the G.
M.
alluding
to
the as-
sassination
of
President
Lincoln
was referred to Brothers
B. B.
French,
R.
McCurdy,
and P.
Hooe,
who retired
and
subsequently
reported
the
following
preamble
and resolutions
:
Whereas,
on
the
evening
of
April
14th,
Abraham
Lincoln,
President of the
United
States
of
America,
was
stricken
down
in
death
by
the
hand
of
an
assassin,
by
which a cloud
of
grief
was
spread
over
the
people,
in
the
deepest
affection
of
whose
hearts his
many
virtues
had
enshrined
him.
;
And
whereas,
although
he was
not
a
member of
our
order,
by
his
pure,
and
honest,
and
upright
life,
every
act of
which
was
marked
by
charity,
brotherly
love,
relief
and
truth,
he
illustrated
all
the
attributes
that
should
beautify
the
life of
a
Free
and
Ac-
cepted
Mason
;
Therefore
does
the Grand
Lodge
of
the
District
of
Columbia
deem
it
eminently
proper
to
announce to
their
Brethren
and the
world,
their
public
appreciation
of
the
dread
calamity
which
has
befallen the
nation
in
the
tragical
death
of its
Chief
Magistrate,
their
sorrow
for
its
occurrence,
and
their
abhorrence
and
detes-
tation
for
the crime
which,
and the
criminal
who
so
wickedly
removed him
from
the
scenes of
earth.
Resolved,
That while the
blow
of the
assassin
which
struck
down
Abraham
Lincoln,
almost
paralyzed
the
hearts of
his
fel-
low-citizens,
to
which
he
seemed dearer
than
any
man
who has
lived
since
Washington,
it has
in
no
wise
disconcerted
the
action
of
the
Federal
Government,
the
existence of
which
depends
not
upon
the
life of
any
man,
but
ever
lives
in
the
patriotism
of
the
American
people.
Resolved,
That
this
Grand
Lodge
can
find
no
words
of
suffi-
cient
strength
to
express
their
horror
and
detestation
of
the
act
which
deprived
our
country
of its
good,
and
pure,
and
virtuous
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Chief
Magistrate,
nor of the
wicked assassin
by
whose
hand the
awful
deed
was
done,
and
who
has
gone
to
meet
the
penaUy
of
his
crime.
Vengeance
is
mine,
I
will
repay,
saith
the
Lord.
Resolved,
That
this
Grand
Lodge
hereby expresses
its
high
admiration
of
the
character
of the
late
President,
whose
life was
without
a
blemish,
and
who
passed
away
from earth
in
the
very
zenith
of
his
fame
;
the
goodness
and
kindness
of
whose
heart
was a
proverb,
and
shall live
in the memories
of
a
grateful peo-
ple,
and
be
handed down
from
generation
to
generation
as
long
as
time
shall last.
Resolved,
That the
bereaved
widow
and children
of
our
mur-
dered
friend,
have
our
sincere and heartfelt
sympathies,
and
our
fervent
prayer
that
the God
of
the widow and
the fatherless
will
so
temper
this
dreadful
affliction with
mercy
as to enable
them
to
sustain
their burden with
fortitude,
and
to
say
in
submission
and
humility,
The
Lord
gave
and the
Lord
hath
taken
away
;
blessed
be the name
of
the
Lord.
Resolved,
That
the
officers and
members
of
this
Grand
Lodge
will
wear
the
usual
badge
of
mourning
for
six
months,
in
testi-
mony
of
their
respect
for the
memory
of
the
great
and
good
man
who has
fallen.
Resolved,
That
the
Grand
Secretary
be
directed
to cause
these
proceedings
to be
published
in
the
National
Freemason
and
the
newspapers
of
this
city,
to
have
a
copy
of them
properly
en-
grossed
and
signed
by
the
proper
officers,
and,
under
the
seal
of
the Grand
Lodge,
presented
to the
family
of
the
deceased.
Which was
received
and the resolutions
adopted.
INDIANA.
Tribute to Abraham
Lincoln.
At
meeting
of the Grand
Lodge
May
34, 1865,
Brother
Al-
bert
Lange
asked
that the rules be
suspended
to
permit
him
to
offer the
following
which
was
granted
:
Whereas,
In
the
inscrutable
Providence of
Almighty
God,
Abraham
Lincoln,
the first
citizen
of
the
United
States
by
official
station,
the
first
by
the rectitude of
his
life
and
daily
conduct,
the
first
by
his
devotion to the
honor,
interest and
integrity
of
the
country,
the
first
by
the
power
and
influence which he
wielded
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with
wisdom,
sagacity
and
courage,
has
been
stricken
down
by
the
hand
of
an
assassin;
And,
whereas,
It
is
due
that
this Grand
Lodge,
representing
328
subordinate
Lodges
scattered
over the
whole
expanse
of
the
State
of
Indiana,
should
give
expression
to their
sentiments
at
the
appalling
blow,
which,
like a thunderbolt
from
a
cloudless
sky,
struck
the
heart
of
the whole
nation
;
therefore,
Resolved,
'[st.
That
we
look
with
abhorrence
upon
the
act,
which
took
from us and
the
country,
which
he so
faithfully
served,
the
man
who
through
four
years
of
deadly
strife,
with
an
eye single
to the
maintenance
of
the
Government,
has
guided
and
directed
us,
and
who,
with
the
haven
of
peace
and
security
in
sight,
was
by
a
dastardly
act snatched
from
the
full
fruition
of
his
labors.
Resolved,
2d. That
we
concur
with freedom
loving people
all
over the
globe,
in
the
expressions
of
regret
and
deep
sorrow,
which
this
event has
called
forth,
and
that we will cherish
Abra-
ham
Lincoln
as
the
great
Emancipator
of
an
oppressed
race with
undying
affection,
trusting,
that
history,
poetry
and
art
will
unite
to
keep
his
memory
green
in
the
remembrance
of
virtuous
men
for ever and
ever.
Resolved,
3d.
That a
copy
of
these resolutions be
forwarded
to
the bereaved
widow
and
family
of
the deceased in
token
of
our
heartfelt
sympathy
with
the
great
loss,
which
they
and
the
country
at
large
have
sustained.
Above
unanimously
concurred
in
and
adopted.
ILLINOIS.
From address
of
H.
P.
H.
Bromwell,
G.
M.,
Oct.
3,
1805.
On the
14th
day
of
April,
Abraham
Lincoln,
President
of
the
United
States,
was
slain
by
the
murderous
hand of
a
ruffian.
Pie
fell
at
a time when
he could
least be
spared
when
all
eyes
were
turned to
the
good
President
as
to the
only being
who
could
restore
the
Union,
heal
the wounds
of
war,
and
set the
Govern-
ment
in
motion
in
harmony
with
the new order
of
things.
At
that
moment God
permitted
him
to
be
taken
away,
to
teach us
that
the
Most
High
ruleth
in the
kingdoms
of
men
and
giveth
it
to whomsoever
he
will.
Abraham
Lincoln,
the
pure
patriot,
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the wise
statesman,
the
good
President,
the
honest
man,
died
a
martyr
to his
comitry,
to
Hberty
and
truth,
and
was
mourned
for
as
no
man
has ever been mourned. He
was
not
a
Free
Mason,
but
in
his
life
and character
he
illustrated
many
of the virtues
taught
and
cherished
by
the
Craft.
I
herewith
submit
a letter
of
sympathy
and condolence from
Renaissance
Lodge working
under
the
jurisdiction
of
the
Grand
Orient of
France.
In
October,
18GT,
the Grand
Lodge
of
Illinois
chartered
Abra-
ham
Lincoln
Lodge,
No.
518,
at
Young
America,
Warren
County,
Illinois.
IOWA.
From address
of
Edward
A.
Guilbert,
M.
D.,
G.
M.,
June
6,
1865.
Forth
from
the
fvu^nace
fires of the
most
terrible
internecine
struggle
of
all
time,
the
nation
has
come,
as
came
Jupiter
out
of
the war
with the
Titans,
endowed
with
resistless
strength
and
power,
with
her noble escutcheon
cleansed from
the
plague-spot
which
has
so
long
polluted
it,
the
republic
stands
proudly
now
in
the
light
of
God's
approving
smile,
redeemed,
regenerated,
DIS-
ENTHRALLED.
Now
is the winter
of
our
discontent
Made
glorious
summer
by
our
boys
in
blue;
And all
the
clouds that
low'r'd
upon
the
land.
In the
deep
bosom
of the ocean
buried.
Now
are
our
brows bound
with
victorious
wreaths,
Our
bruised arms
hung
up
for
monuments
;
Our
stern alarms
changed
to
merry
meetings
;
Our
dreadful
marches to
delightful
measures.
Grim-visaged
war hath
smoothed his
wrinkled
front.
And
now
instead
of
mounting
barbed
steeds
To
fright
the souls
of
fearful
adversaries,
He
capers nimbly
in
a
lady's
chamber
To the
lascivious
pleasing
of
a lute.
Truly,
the
cloud has turned
a
silver
lining
to
the
light,
but
yet
like
a
scintillant
diamond
in
a
setting
of
jet,
that
silver lin-
ing
is
bordered
with
the emblems
of
mourning.
Even
in
the
hour
of
victory,
while
the
glad
lo
rang
over
the
jubilant
North
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and
thej-ecreatcd
South,
there
was
death
in
the White
House
;
the
head
of
the
nation
—
the
wise
and
pure
—
the
clement
and
faithful
President was done
to death
by
the
assassin's
bullet,
and he who
was fast
becoming
the idol
of
his
countrymen,
was
not
Mournfully
sublime was
the instantaneous
and universal
transition
from delirious
joy
to
profoundest
sorrow.
In
a
mo-
ment
of time
the notes of
exultant
clarions
and
the sonorous
tenor
of
the
republic's
Te
Deum
changed
into
muffled
drum-
beats,
and the
thrilling
baritone
of heart-born
wailing.
He
had
borne
his faculties so
meek,
had
been
So
clear
in
his
great
office,
that
his
virtues
Did
plead
like
angels
trumpet-tongued, against
The
deep
damnation
of
this
taking
off.
Like
a
wounded
hyena
in
its
expiring
throes,
rebellion
struck
her last
vicious blow
at the nation's
life,
and
thereby
slew
the
truest
friend
the
insurgents
had. Yet how
swift
was
the
pun-
ishment
the
fiendist
agent
of a fiendish
cabal
received.
And how
few
there
are
that
mourn
because
amid
retributive
physical
pangs
of
the most
excjuisitely
painful
character,
this
modern
Judas
gave
up
his
worthless
life and
went
to his
reward.
Let
every
true Mason
praise
the
G.
A.
O.
T.
U.
that
the
execrable
conspiracy
against
the
Government
of
our
fathers,
was
in
part
unsuccessful,
and that
with
scarcely
a
perceptible
devia-
tion
from
her direct
course,
the
gallant
ship
of
state went stead-
ily
on,
albeit
her
pilot
had
fallen at
her
helm,
a victim of
one
of
the
most
damnable
crimes
of
history.
Could any
fact
more
forcefully
demonstrate
the
stability
of
the
republic
—
more nota-
bly
evince
the
protecting
care of
the
Omnipotent,
—
more
grandly
attest Columbia's title
to emblazon
on her
shield
the
additional
motto—
ESTO PERPETUA
than that the
warworn
ship
of
state unchecked
by
that
sudden sound
and shock which
would
have
precipitated
almost
any
other
country
into the
maelstrom
of
revolution,
pursued
her
stately
voyage,
leaving
as
luminous
a wake
as ever
behind
her.
God,
Plimself
had
given
her
a mis-
sion
to
perform. He
knew
that
—
^ humanity
with
all
its
fears.
With
all
its
hopes
of
future
years,
Was
hanging
breathless
on
her
fate
;
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and
in
His
good providence
He saved
her harmless
from
the
shock,
and
capacitated
the
appalled people
soon
to
see that it
Was
of
the
wave
and
not the rock
The helmsman was
gone,
but
as ever
strong
and
great,
the
glorious
ship
sailed on her
meteor
flag
to
be sure
was
at half-
mast
in
sorrow
for
her
loss,
but
in
mute,
yet
eloquent
attestation
of the
worth
of
him
who
was
receiving
the
sublimest funeral
obsequies
the
world
ever saw.
And
worthy
was
he
of
them:
For
he won not
power
with
the
sword,
But
by
the
love
a nation
bore
For
him
whose
very
soul was
stirr'd
With
love
for
those
he ruled
o'er.
W^ith
steady
stride,
onward
he
went,
The
light
of
great
deeds
on
him
beaming;
Up,
up
Fame's
mountain's
steep
ascent
Its
peak
unto
;
and
while
around
him
streaming
Were
fruition's
banners
;
from that
summit
high,
Like
Moses who
Pisgah
ascended
to
die
—
He
sprang
from
the earth
to
his
home in
the
sky.
Masons'
hands assisted
to bear
him
to the
equal
grave
;
Masons'
Lodges
were
clad in the emblems
of
mourning
for de-
parted
worth,
and
Masons
mingled
their
laments with
those
of
the
nation,
which
—
around
his
bier
Are
gather'd
in
sorrow
and
fear
Longing
to see of
this
stroke
the
end,
And
mourning
a father
and a
friend
And their
offspring
in all
coming
time,
Shall
remember
well the
ruler brave
And
be
guided
by
his star
sublime.
And
shall
make a
shrine
of his
lonely
grave
zAnd
it
was
fitting
that
Masons
should
thus
evince
their
love
of
country
and
their
regard
for
its
murdered
ruler,
who,
though
he
was
not a
Mason,
revered the
Order,
and was
himself
com-
posed
of
the
stuff
out
of
which the
most
capable,
the
most
be-
nignant
fraters
are
made.
The committee
on
the address
reported
as
follows:
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Your
committee
recommend
that
we
hereby
express
our
sat-
isfaction
with
the
appropriate
and
timely
eulogy
on
the
death
of
President
Lincoln,
and that
the
thanks
of
this
Grand
Lodge
are
due
to
the
M.
W.
G.
M. for
this
portion
of
his
address.
On
motion
of Bro.
Parvin,
G.
S.,
the
M. W.
G.
M.
appointed
as a
committee
to
report
resolutions
expressive
of
the
feelings
of
this
Grand
Lodge
in
regard
to the
assassination
of
our
late
President
the
following
brethren
:
Col.
John
Scott,
Gov.
Wm.
M.
Stone,
Lieut.
Gov.
E.
W.
Eastman.
The
special
committee
on
the
assassination
of
President
Lin-
coln
presented
the
following
report
and
resolutions,
which
were
unanimously
adopted
:
Your
committee,
appointed
to
express
by
resolution
the
sense
of the Grand
Lodge
of
Iowa
in relation to
the
awful
calamity
which
has
befallen
our
nation
in the
murder
of
Abraham
Lin-
coln,
late
President
of
the
United
States,
knowing
that
words
arc
but
a
mockery,
and
cannot
relieve
the burdened
heart,
yet
feel-
ing
that
propriety
and
duty require
that
this
Grand
Lodge
should
not
be
silent,
present
the
following
resolutions
:
1.
Resolved,
That
in
our
lamented
late President
we
recognize
a
patriot
and statesman
of
purity
and
wisdom,
who
has
safely
carried
our
country through
the
most
terrible
ordeal
of the
past
four
years,
earning
the admiration
of the world
by
his
purity
of
intention
and
singleness
of
purpose,
and
the
unbounded
gratitude
of
thirty
millions
of
his
countrymen.
That
Abraham
Lincoln
should
and
will
be
revered
while
time
shall
last,
as
great
and
good
among
names
not
born to
die.
2.
Resolved,
That as
Masons
we
are
taught
to detest
con-
spiracies,
plots
and
rebellions
;
and
in
an
especial
manner to
ab-
hor
assassination.
o.
Resolved,
That
in
depriving
our nation
of
its
chief,
by
as-
sassination,
we
recognize
a
crime
without
a
name
;
and
for
which
language
fails
to
express
our
grief
and
horror.
4.
Resolved,
That
we
humbly
approach
the
grave
of
our
mur-
dered
President,
and
with
sorrow
for
his
sad
fate,
will
rear
a
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broken
column
to
commemorate
his
many
virtues
and
his
un-
timely
death.
John
Scott,
W. M.
Stone,
Enoch Eastman.
Proceedings
of
the
Grand
Lodge
of
Io\\'a,
June
8,
186-j.
MAINE.
From address
of
William
P.
Preble,
G.
M.,
May
2,
1865.
We
will not be
unmindful
of
the
great
loss
sustained
by
our
beloved
country
in
the fiendish and
indignant
assassination
of one
whose
greatest failing
(if
any
he
had)
was,
that
from the
up-
rightness,
purity
and
tender
heartedness of
his
own
nature,
he
could
not conceive
that
any
human
being
could
be so
utterly
de-
praved
as
to raise his hand
in
murderous
assault
upon
one
who,
by
his
unceasing
and
untiring loving
kindness,
forgiveness
and
patience,
stood between
him and
his
rebellious
and traitorous
as-
sociates
and
sympathizers
and
the
fierce
and
long
endured
and
smothered
wrath
of a
justly
incensed and
outraged
people.
Though
our horizon is
again
overshadowed with
clouds,
just
as
we all
began
to
hope
that
the
glorious
sun
of
peace
was
about
to
rise
upon
and bless
us,
we will
not
give
way
to useless
repinings,
but
with a
firm
faith
and
reliance that our
Supreme
Grand Mas-
ter
does
not
permit
any
calamity
however
great
or
appalling,
to
befall
an
individual,
much less
a
nation,
but for some
great
and
wise
purpose,
we
will,
while
renewing
our
vows
of
faithfulness
to
the
great
principles
of
our
Order,
bow
in humble
submission
to
his inscrutable
dispensations,
earnestly
invoking
his
protection
and
guidance
upon
our
whole
country
in
this her
time
of
peace
and
that
in his
own
good
time
he
will
again
unite
us
into
one
great
and
happy
people.
MASSACHUSETTS.
P.
20,
1865.
Bethesda
Lodge
forwarded
resolution
of
sympathy
to
Grand
Lodge
''the
expression
of
their
most
sincere
condolence
and
re-
gret
on the
loss
of
so
great
and
good
a
man as
Abraham Lincoln
whose
memory
should
ever be
cherished
by
those
who
profess
the
principles
of
our ancient
institution.
Valparaiso,
July
31,
1865.
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NEVADA.
From address
of
Joseph
De
Bell,
G.
M.,
Virginia
City.
April
19,
1865.
On this
day
were
held
the
funeral
obsequies
of our late Chief
Magistrate.
The hands
of
an assassin
robbed
of
life the beloved head
of
the
nation. That nation
covered
its
face
and
wept.
I
deemed
it
both
right
and
proper
that
we
as
Masons should
join
in
the concord
of sorrow
and
deposit
in
the
open
grave
of the
martyred
President
our
'chaplct
of
living
laurel.'
I
therefore
convened the
Grand
Lodge
and
that
body,
accompanied
by
a
large
number
of the
fraternity,
joined
in
the
funeral
procession.
NEW
HAMPSHIRE.
From
address
of
Jonathan
E.
Sargent,
G.
M.,
June
11,
1865.
We,
as
Masons,
as
well
as
citizens,
may properly
mourn
for
the
national
calamity
which
recently
befell
us,
when
the
chosen
head
and ruler
of
this
nation
fell
by
the hand of the
base and
cowardly
assassin.
NEW
YORK.
G.
L.
Report,
1865,
p.
43.
Report
of
D.
G.
M.
Robert D.
Holmes,
May
10,
1865.
On
the occasion
of the
obsequies
of
our
late
President
I
deemed it
proper
to
respond
to
the
invitation
of
the civic
authori-
ties
to take
part
in
the
solemn
ceremonies of the
day.
In
this
W.
M.
Sir,
you
agreed
with
me,
and
being
thus
empowered
I
invited
the
whole
of
the
local
craft
to
take a
position
in
the
procession.
Over
five
thousand
brethren
responded,
and
by my
direction were
dressed
in
black,
with
crepe
on
the
left
arm,
and
a
sprig
of
evergreen
in
the
left
lapel
of the
coat of
each,
the
Masters
having
been
distinguished
solely
by
their
gavels
which
they
carried
dressed
in
mourning.
NEW
YORK,
p.
93,
1865.
From
report
of
M. W.
John
L.
Lewis,
Chairman
Committee
of
Foreign
Correspondence.
And
there
is a
sorrow which
we bear
in
common
with
our
stricken
nation,
nay,
let
us
add
of
the
other
nations
of
the
earth.
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that
our
honored
Chief
Magistrate
has
been
removed
by
the
wicked
hand
of violence
in the
hour of
his
greatest
and
noblest
triumphs.
It
is
the heart
throb
of an
undivided
people,
who,
for-
getting
every past
difference,
and
every
division which
has
for a
brief time
separated
them,
mournfully
entwine
the laurel
with
the
cypress.
OHIO.
From
address
of
Thomas
Sparrow,
G.
M. Oct.
IT,
1865.
On
the
morning
of
the
15th
of
April
last,
the
public
mind
was
astounded
by
the
announcement
that
the
constitutional
Ruler
of
this
great
nation
had been
basely
murdered
;
that
he
who
so
lately
was
in
every
mouth the theme
of
praise
or
blame,
had
gone
be-
yond
the
reach of
both.
No
man was
ever
called
to
greater
trials
in
political
life.
No man
ever
bore those
trials
with
greater
pa-
tience.
In the
very
midst
of
them,
in the
very
last
exposition
of
his
principles
and
purposes,
he
paused
to
give
utterance
to
the
noble
sentiment,
which
I
trust,
will
govern
us
on
this
and
every
other occasion
:
With
charity
towards
all,
with
malice
to
none,
doing
the
right,
so
far as God
gives
us
to know
the
right,
let us
strive
to
finish
the work
we are
in. Praise
to
the
man who
could
utter
such a
sentiment.
He was
stricken
down
at
the
very
moment
when
the
minds
of
men
of
all
parties
and
every
diversity
of views
had
acquired
con-
fidence
in his
moderation
and
wisdom,
and
were turned towards
him
as
the
only
one
capable
of
adjusting
the
complicated ques-
tions
arising
out
of
the
state
of
the
country
and
the
bitter
ani-
mosity generated
by
four
years
of
civil
strife.
Praise to
the
man.
A
nation
stood
Beside
his coffin
with
wet
eyes
;
Her
brave,
her beautiful
her
good,
As
when
a
loved one dies.
In
the
universal
grief
of
the
nation,
I
thought
it
proper
that
the
fraternity,
as
such,
should
express
not
only
their utter
ab-
horrence
of
the
deep
damnation
of
his
taking
oft ,
but
pay
a
tribute
of
respect
to
his virtues
as a
man and
his
integrity
as
a
public
servant.
Accordingly
at
the
request
of the brethren
of
Cleveland,
I issued a
Dispensation
authorizing
them
to
appear
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in
public
on
the
reception
of
his
remains
in
that
city,
and
on
their
arrival
here,
I
opened
the
Grand
Lodge,
and,
in
conjunction
with
the R.
W.
Deputy
Grand
Master,
and a
large
concourse
of
brethren,
from
all
parts
of the
State,
participated
in
his funeral
obsequies.
The
Death of the
President.
Your
committee to
whom
was
referred
so much
of the Grand
Master's
address
as
related
to the
death of
the late
President of
the
United
States,
beg
leave to
report
that
there has
been,
and
can
be,
but
one
feeling
among
the craft
in
Ohio
in
relation
to
the
death
of
the
late
President
Lincoln,
and
that is
of
deep
regret
at
his
decease,
and of the
utmost
abhorrence
of
the crime
by
which he was
removed.
Your
committee
sincerely
and heart-
ily
reciprocate
the
sentiments
expressed by
the Grand
Master
in
relation to
the
lamentable
event,
and
approve
the
language
in
which
they
were
uttered.
Your
committee
submit
for
your
approval
the
following:
Resolved,
That
the
Freemasons
of
Ohio
yield
to
no
class
of
citizens
in
their
devotion
to
the
Government
and
Union
estab-
lished
by
our
patriotic
fathers,
and have attested their
loyalty
thereto
in
every
possible
manner,
the record
of
which is found
not
only
at
home,
but
on
many
a
crimsoned field.
Resolved,
That while
we
sympathize
with the
country
at
large
in
the
bereavement which
it sustained
in
the
death
of
the
Presi-
dent,
we
regard
with
unmixed
abhorrence
and
detestation
the
fiendish act
which
deprived
the
nation of its
constitutional head
at a
perilous
juncture
in
its
history.
Respectfully
submitted,
Corne;,lius
Moore,
Jno.
D.
O'Connor,
J.
H.
BarnhiIvL.
Above
resolutions
were
unanimously
adopted.
WISCONSIN.
From
address
of
G.
W.
Washburn,
G. M.,
June
13,
1865.
But while
we
may
rejoice
that
victory
has
perched
upon
our
banners and
right
has
come out
triumphant
in
the
contest,
we
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cannot
fail to
share
in
the
general
grief
that
he
whose
position
made
him
conspicuous
above
all
others,
should
be destined to
close
his
career
upon
this earth
by
the
hand
of
a
brutal and cow-
ardly
wretch,
who
runs
from
the
scene
of his
terrible
crime,
exulting
in
his
infamy
and
shame.
It
is
not for
me to
pronounce
the President's
eulogy,
nor
is
this
the
occasion
for it.
History
will
deal
fairly by
him and the
world
will
judge
him
in
kindness.
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